Unable to delete File or Folder in Windows

If you are encountering problems while deleting a file or folder and you recieve any of these following errors ,

Cannot delete file: Access is denied.
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

then Unlocker utility is the solution for you,

July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment | Read More »

A 10$ Laptop – Promising plans of Indian Govt.

10$ laptops india India needs IT to progress and here is a great step from our Govt. to look into this issue, A minister of the federal government of India said that they are working on towards a 10$ Laptop  . Now this news is really great for students who can not afford costly laptops, like India gave the world the world’s cheapest car Tata Nano , I believe it will provide the cheapest laptops too , so that OLPC( One Laptop per Child ) scheme can be revised .

July 30, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

How to remove New Folder.exe (sohanad) Virus

Also known as sohanad virus , this virus is generally found on USB drives, and your shared documents folder . This virus actively infects other people on LAN, if they have their write access enabled and in this manner it can propagate in LAN environments very rapidly .

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July 29, 2008 | 2 Comments | Read More »

Download Accelerator for Linux,Windows or Mac Os X

We all know that windows has a lot of Download accelerators for it, but same is not true with Linux and Mac , although their are alternatives like Kget and wget in Linux , but still they are not that effective as they can not be integrated with Firefox, do not have multi-threaded download feature etc.

wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source download manager. It is multi-platform and builds on Windows(2k,XP), Linux and Mac OS X. Besides that, it is a multi-threaded download manager. This means that it can split a file into several pieces and download the pieces simultaneously.

July 29, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Cool New look for Wordpress Dashboard !!

Here , is a cool new look for your Wordpress administration area , in essence it is just a plugin which changes the overall CSS of the dashboard and administration area , It works like a charm and you get a cool new look instantly , Developed and maintained by OrderedList ,here are some snapshots of what his plugin does to your Wordpress administration area  .

1. The DashBoard

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July 29, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Do not unzip this – it is a huge 42 KB file !!

This is truly a work of  clever technical intelligence , You have a 42 KB zip file that expands to 45 PB ( Peta bytes 1012 bytes) . here is what the web site hosting this file says ,

The file contains 16 zipped files, which again contains 16 zipped files, which again contains 16 zipped files, which again contains 16 zipped, which again contains 16 zipped files, which contain 1 file, with the size of 4.3GB.

Now , how on earth does that can happen, well the answer is a characteristic property of zip compression , data redundancy , actually this file has a 4.2 GB file consisting of all zeroes , this means high redundancy and so zip is able to compress it that small .

now , go ahead and unzip it !!

July 28, 2008 | 28 Comments | Read More »

Linux partition from Windows – Full read/write access

With more number of users dual-booting between Linux and Windows , it becomes necessary to share files between windows partitions and Linux Ext2 partitions . You can somehow have read access on NTFS partitions from  Linux , but you still need something  for accessing Linux partitions through windows .

Here is the solution , we have these two softwares or what we can call as  system drivers that enable us to use Linux partitions as any other Windows partition with full read/write control , so now you can use your Linux partitions with ease right from Windows , Use any one of these

Both work fine , I have myself tried the first one from fs-driver.org ,

July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment | Read More »

Search any Web site, from Address bar – Firefox & Opera

If you search a lot, be it Google, Wikipedia or  Torrent search , then this trick is a blessing for you . Firefox and Opera both support a revolutionary method to speed up your searching process . When enabled you can say, search Wikipedia for bluetooth just by typing in "w bluetooth" in address bar of either Firefox or Opera . Here are the steps to make a custom keyword for searching any web site ,

  • Visit the respective site and right click on a blank area in the search box ..

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July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment | Read More »

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